Remembering Chadwick Boseman, TikTok Drama, Neuralink's Pig Trepanation

• Remembering Chadwick Boseman
• Elon Musk demonstrates Neurallink: trepanning a Pig
• What is Palantir doing?
• Apple vs Epic: how anti-competitive is Apple, and what should the government do about this?
• TikTok This Week: Walmart Enters the Fray; why TikTok is Dangerous
• Amazon announces Halo, a subscription fitness wearable and platform that can tell when you are angry
• Cory Doctorow on Shoshanna Zuboff: how to destroy Surveillance Capitalism and the Chickenization of America
• The effects of monopolism: why your glasses cost $700 and wages have dropped over the past 50 years.
• How legislation defends monopolies, and how lobbyists have destroyed democracy
• How to fix Facebook: more choices in Social Media
• Cyberwar with China: the TikTok era
• How conspiracy theories work
• The difficulties of teaching and learning via Zoom
• Chatterbox: one of the best ways to learn in the COVID Age
• Life in the COVID age: it could be a lot worse
• OhDoctah on Black Lives Matter, and his personal experiences with racist Police

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen JJ Stone, Cory Doctorow, and Mike Elgan

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